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Quotation from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
“He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers”
Gulliver's Travels, Part III, Ch. 5 (1735 Faulkner text)
The first projector Gulliver meets at the Academy of Lagado, a satire of the Royal Society.
Citation: "He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers" — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part III, Ch. 5 (1735 Faulkner text). (id gullivers-travels-q3)
Portrait: Jonathan Swift, Charles Jervas, Public domain.
